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Integrated researcher at the Institute of Contemporary History (IHC) and PhD Candidate in History at NOVA University Lisbon (project funded by Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia - FCT). BA in Journalism and Communication (Minor in Art Studies) at the University of Coimbra and Master's student in Latin American Social Studies at the University of Buenos Aires. Currently working on Brazilian and Cuban foreign policies to Portuguese-speaking Africa during the Cold War.
Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Rebeca Ávila de Oliveira Galvão

Citation names

  • Ávila, Rebeca

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
E316-77D1-8AB8
ORCID iD
0000-0003-1889-5773

Email addresses

  • rebecaavila@fcsh.unl.pt (Professional)

Websites

Knowledge fields

  • Humanities - History and Archaeology - History
  • Social Sciences - Sociology

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
Portuguese (Mother tongue)
English Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Advanced (C1) Proficiency (C2)
Spanish; Castilian Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2)
French Elementary (A2) Upper intermediate (B2) Elementary (A2) Upper intermediate (B2)
Czech Beginner (A1) Elementary (A2) Beginner (A1) Elementary (A2)
Education
Degree Classification
2025/09
Ongoing
History (Doutoramento)
Major in Contemporary History
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
"Brasil, Cuba e as violências políticas em África: colonialidade e racialidade durante a Guerra Fria (1961-1988)" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
2018 - 2023
Ongoing
Latin American Studies (Master)
Universidad de Buenos Aires Facultad de Ciencias Sociales, Argentina
"Brasil y Cuba en la descolonización del África portuguesa: colonialidad, racialidad y política exterior (1961-1976)" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
2014 - 2017/10/27
Concluded
Journalism and Communication (Minor in Art Studies) (Licenciatura)
Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Letras, Portugal
Affiliation

Others

Category
Host institution
Employer
2019 - 2021 Translator and interpreter (English, Portuguese, Spanish) Contractor, Portugal
2018 - 2021 Assistant editor, translator Revista Opera, Brazil
2017/01 - 2017/02 Intern (volunteer) Národní knihovna Ceské republiky, Czech Republic
Department of Manuscripts and Old Prints, Czech Republic
2015 - 2016/05 Communications officer (intern) Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Letras, Portugal
Communication and Image Office , Portugal
Projects

Grant

Designation Funders
2021/09/20 - 2025/09/19 Brasil, Cuba e as violências políticas em África: colonialidade e racialidade durante a Guerra Fria, 1961-1988
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de História Contemporânea, Portugal

Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
2018/04/03 - 2019/12/06 Brasil y Cuba en la descolonización del África portuguesa: colonialidad, racialidad y política exterior (1961-1976)
Master Student Fellow
Universidad de Buenos Aires Facultad de Ciencias Sociales, Argentina

Argentina Ministerio de Educación Cultura Ciencia y Tecnología, Argentina
Argentina Ministerio de Educación Cultura Ciencia y Tecnología
Ongoing
2016/10 - 2017/02 Uncomfortable silences over Portuguese colonialism
-
Scientific Initiation Fellow
Univerzita Karlova Filozofická fakulta, Czech Republic
Erasmus Plus
Concluded
Outputs

Publications

Book chapter
  1. Zunino, Malena; Ávila, Rebeca. "Mujeres, anticomunismo y Guerra Fría en América Latina: propuestas de investigación a partir de los movimientos de Brasil y Chile en la antesala de los golpes de Estado". In Guerra Fría y golpes de estado en América Latina (a 70 años del golpe de Estado en Bolivia 1952), edited by David Diaz Arias. Buenos Aires, Argentina: Editorial Teseo, 2024.
    Under revision
Conference abstract
  1. Ávila, Rebeca. "La educación popular de Paulo Freire y la derecha brasileña en el siglo XXI: las ideas transgresoras como objetos políticos". Paper presented in 8ª Conferencia Latinoamericana y Caribeña de Ciencias Sociales - CLACSO, Buenos Aires, 2018.
    Published
Conference paper
  1. Ávila, Rebeca; Zunino, Malena. "La circulación de saberes, tácticas y recursos entre los movimientos de mujeres anticomunistas en Brasil y Chile: género y Guerra Fría". Paper presented in XIV Jornadas de Sociología de la Facultad de Ciencias Sociales de la Universidad de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, 2021.
    Published
  2. Ávila, Rebeca. "Lei do Espanhol no Brasil, da implementação à revogação: a identidade latino-americana em jogo". Paper presented in IV Jornadas de Estudios de América Latina y el Caribe - IEALC/UBA, Buenos Aires, 2018.
    Published
Journal article
  1. Ávila, Rebeca. "Brasil y Cuba en la descolonización de Angola, Mozambique y Guinea Bissau: una aproximación comparativa de sus políticas exteriores (1961-1976)". e-l@tina. Revista electrónica de estudios latinoamericanos 19 75 (2021): 48-70. https://publicaciones.sociales.uba.ar/index.php/elatina/article/view/6438.
    Open access • Published
Magazine article
  1. Ávila, Rebeca. "2021, um ano estratégico para Cuba", Opera, 2021, https://revistaopera.com.br/2021/01/27/2021-um-ano-estrategico-para-cuba/.
  2. Ávila, Rebeca. "As irmãs Mirabal contra a ditadura Trujillo: mulheres na linha de frente", Opera, 2020, https://revistaopera.com.br/2020/11/26/as-irmas-mirabal-contra-a-ditadura-trujillo-mulheres-na-linha-de-frente/.
  3. Ávila, Rebeca. "Pedro Monzón: “Cultura é fenômeno que transborda Cuba”", Opera, 2020, https://revistaopera.com.br/2020/11/06/pedro-monzon-cultura-e-fenomeno-que-transborda-cuba/.
  4. Ávila, Rebeca. "Burkina Faso: 33 anos depois, haverá justiça para Sankara?", Opera, 2020, https://revistaopera.com.br/2020/10/21/burkina-faso-33-anos-depois-havera-justica-para-sankara/.
Activities

Oral presentation

Presentation title Event name
Host (Event location)
2023/09/08 Imagining Africa to imagine itself: Brazilian military dictatorship and the Third World as a space for dispute in the Cold War [Imaginar a África para se imaginar: a ditadura militar brasileira e o Terceiro Mundo como espaço de disputa na Guerra Fria] IV Congress of the Association of Brazilianists in Europe
ABRE (Lisbon, Portugal)
2022/11/10 Speaker at the Seminar "History Teachers and Historians"
Universidade de Cabo Verde (Cape Verde)
2022/10/18 Brazil and Cuba: between African liberation and the Portuguese revolution [Brasil e Cuba: entre a libertação africana e a revolução portuguesa] "Da Resistência ao Colonialismo Português à África Pós-Independente"
Museu do Aljube (Lisbon, Portugal)
2019/06/13 Brazil and Cuba in the Portuguese Colonial War. Race as an axis in foreign policy [Brasil y Cuba en la Guerra Colonial Portuguesa. La idea de raza como eje de la política exterior] Espacio "La Investigación en Proceso"
Grupo de Estudios en Sociología Histórica de América Latina (GESHAL-IEALC/UBA) (Buenos Aires, Argentina)

Event organisation

Event name
Type of event (Role)
Institution / Organization
2022/10/26 - 2023/06/19 Doctoral Thesis Seminar (IHC Advanced Studies Platform) (2022/10/26 - 2023/06/19)
Seminar (Co-organisor)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de História Contemporânea, Portugal
2023/01/26 - 2023/01/27 International Conference "Anticolonial Struggle, Transnational Solidarity and Agency of Individual Actors: Dialogues with the Portuguese Colonies, 1945-1975" (2023/01/26 - 2023/01/27)
Congress (Co-organisor)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de História Contemporânea, Portugal
2021/12/03 - 2021/12/03 1st Annual IHC PhD Workshop: "The challenges of Global History - National History, Connected History and Global History" [1ª Oficina Doutoral Anual do IHC: "Os Desafios da História Global - História Nacional, História Conectada e História Global"] (2021/12/03 - 2021/12/03)
Workshop (Co-organisor)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de História Contemporânea, Portugal
2019/07 - 2019/10 Press officer and translator for the Fragments of Memory Exhibition - Artistic Representations of Diaspora Lives (dir. Prof. Bruno Véras). UNESCO event at the 25th anniversary of the Slave Route Project, organized by the Freedom Narratives project (dir. Prof. Dr. Paul E. Lovejoy) (2019/10/08 - 2019/10/31)
Exhibition (Other)
York University - SHADD - Studies in the History of African Diaspora Documents , Canada
2015 - 2015 Course "Heritage and education on Afro-Brazilian and Indigenous History and Cultures: round tables and conferences" [Curso de patrimônio e educação em História e Cultura afro-brasileira e indígena: ciclo de debates e palestras] (2015/07/23 - 2015/07/29)
Workshop (Co-organisor)
Universidade Federal de Pernambuco Núcleo de Estudos Afro-Brasileiros, Brazil

Universidade Federal de Pernambuco Centro de Educação, Brazil

Event participation

Activity description
Type of event
Event name
Institution / Organization
2020/06/02 - 2023/06/02 Discussant - Assessment of final essays ["American Studies" course]
Symposium
International Relations (BA)
Universidade Portucalense Infante Dom Henrique Departamento de Direito, Portugal
2020/09/16 - 2020/11/19 Interpretation [Spanish->Portuguese]
Meeting
Rodas de Conversa - A proteçao coletiva das pessoas e coletividades defensoras dos direitos humanos, ambientais e territoriais e o direito a defender os direitos humanos em países como Brasil, Colômbia, Guatemala e Honduras
Protection International, Belgium

Centro de Estudos e Ação Social (CEAS), Brazil

Coordenadoria Ecumênica de Serviço (CESE), Brazil

Associação de Advogados e Trabalhadores Rurais (AATR), Brazil
2020/10/27 - 2020/10/28 Interpretation (Spanish->Portuguese)
Meeting
Intercâmbio sobre Proteção a Defensorxs de Direitos Humanos Brasil – Colômbia
Sociedade Maranhense de Direitos Humanos, Brazil

MISEREOR, Germany
2019/10 - 2019/10 "Critical paradigms of emancipation in the Caribbean and Latin America - Revolution and memory"
Workshop
III CLACSO International Postgraduate School
Consejo Latinoamericano de Ciencias Sociales, Argentina

Casa de las Americas, Cuba

Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung, Germany

Instituto de Filosofía, Cuba
2019/09/02 - 2019/09/04 VI Afro-Latin-American Studies Conference
Conference
VI Jornadas de Estudios Afrolatinoamericanos
Universidad de Buenos Aires Grupo de Estudios Afrolatinoamericanos, Argentina

Harvard University Afro-Latin American Research Institute, United States
2019/05/28 - 2019/06/18 Assistente (carga horária: 12h)
Workshop
Latin America in the geopolitics of the United States [América Latina en la geopolítica de Estados Unidos]
Centro Estratégico Latinoamericano de Geopolítica, Argentina

Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina

Instituto de Estudios de América Latina y el Caribe (IEALC), Argentina
2018/06/19 - 2018/06/19 Assistente
Symposium
The articulation between Science and Justice to think about Human Rights [La articulación entre Ciencia y Justicia para pensar los Derechos Humanos]
Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas, Argentina
2017 - 2017 Talk on the ELAN Network/Erasmus+ mobility at Charles University in Prague. Invited speaker. Erasmus Talks @ UC
Universidade de Coimbra Divisão de Relações Internacionais, Portugal
2016/03/02 - 2016/05/04 Bolseira assistente (Carga horária: 16h)
Workshop
Course "Geoestrategic Introduction to the Middle East"
Fundação Serralves, Portugal

Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Interdisciplinares do Século XX, Portugal

Ad Hoc journal article review

Journal title (ISSN) Publisher
2023/02/28 - 2023/03/24 e-l@tina. Revista electrónica de estudios latinoamericanos (1666-9606) Grupo de Estudios de Sociología Histórica de América Latina (GESHAL) - University of Buenos Aires

Association member

Society Organization name Role
2023 - Current Association of Brazilianists in Europe (ABRE)

Course / Discipline taught

Academic session Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization
2020/04/12 - 2023/04/12 "Brazil and Argentina: development, regionalism and hegemony". Guest Lecturer International Relations (Licenciatura) Universidade Portucalense Infante Dom Henrique Departamento de Direito, Portugal
2020/04/05 - 2023/04/05 "Cuba and its foreign policy challenges: Cold War, Third World, and Revolution after Castro". Guest Lecturer International Relations (Licenciatura) Universidade Portucalense Infante Dom Henrique Departamento de Direito, Portugal

Interview (tv / radio show)

Program Topic
2018/11/23 - 2018/11/23 Podcast Pistolando #012 - Colonized and colonizers [Colonizados e colonizadores] Legacies of Portuguese colonization

Other jury / evaluation

Activity description Institution / Organization
2019/11/28 - 2019/11/28 Invited discussant - IV MESLA-TISHAL Symposium for Sociology students Universidade de Buenos Aires - Taller de Sociología Histórica de América Latina, Argentina
2018/11/29 - 2018/11/29 Invited discussant - III MESLA-TISHAL Symposium for Sociology students Universidade de Buenos Aires - Taller de Sociología Histórica de América Latina, Argentina
Distinctions

Other distinction

2024 Scholarship - Merging Voices Program
Erasmus Plus, Belgium

Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal

Universidade Agostinho Neto, Angola
2022 Scholarship - Platform for Dialogue CALAS: Guerra Fría y golpes de estado en América Latina (a 70 años del golpe de Estado en Bolivia 1952)
Universidad de Costa Rica, Costa Rica

Maria Sibylla Merian Center for Advanced Latin American Studies, Costa Rica

German Federal Ministry of Education and Research, Germany
2019 Scholarship - 3rd International Postgraduate School "Critical Paradigms of Emancipation in the Caribbean and Latin America. Revolution and memory"
Consejo Latinoamericano de Ciencias Sociales, Argentina

Casa de las Americas, Cuba

Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung, Germany
2017 Scholarship - Course "Geoestrategic Introduction to the Middle East"
Fundação Engenheiro António de Almeida, Portugal

Fundação Serralves, Portugal

Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Interdisciplinares do Século XX, Portugal
2016 Scholarship - Academic mobility at Charles University in Prague
European Liberal Arts Network, Germany

Erasmus Plus, Belgium

Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal

Univerzita Karlova, Czech Republic